Researchers find too few unique codes protecting too many (millions) from being unlocked or started. Volkswagen is most vulnerable, but Audi, Alfa Romeo, Citroen, Fiat, Ford, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Opel, and Skoda are as well.

There’s a new credit-card sized computer in town — except it’s actually about twice the size of a credit card, and twice the price of the Raspberry Pi, which it seeks to compete with. It’s called the MIPS Creator CI20, and it’s made by Imagination Technologies — the company that’s mostly known for its PowerVR GPU cores, which can be found in almost every iPhone or iPad under the sun.

One of the greatest joys of being a technologist is that I get to see, often first-hand, some of humanity’s most novel ideas. Case in point: One enterprising hacker has taken a TRS-80 — one of the first mass-produced personal computers — and given it the ability to stream an episode of Doctor Who from a stack of five-and-a-quarter-inch floppy disks.

When the Raspberry Pi Foundation announced way back in 2011 that it would release a complete PC for $25, we were dubious — but hey, here we are in 2014 and Raspberry Pi has been a massive success story, with thousands of units sold at the promised $25 price point. Today, the Foundation is releasing the Raspberry Pi Model A+ — a smaller, cheaper version of the Model A. The A+ costs just $20, and you can buy it today from Farnell in the UK or MCM in the US. Amusingly enough, the A+ is actually smaller than credit-card sized.

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